Teri Smith, Douglas County Emergency Management director, said two Lawrence Douglas County Fire and Medical division chiefs, Bill Stark and Sean Coffey, have been sent to Reading as part of the Northeast Kansas incident management team.

Stark is the team’s incident commander, and Coffey is the planning chief. Smith said both men have been deployed several times to help in emergencies, including with the 2007 Greensburg tornado. Smith said the incident management team is assisting Lyon County’s emergency management director in helping the community in its recovery efforts.

In addition to Stark and Coffey, two Douglas County Sheriff’s deputies were scheduled to provide security and other law enforcement functions in Reading on Monday, said Sgt. Steve Lewis, a sheriff’s spokesman.